After she had finally calmed down, and had 'supper', Elena and Damon walked out of the bathroom and into the living room where Gia and Charlotte were watching TV and sitting on one of the two couches in the room. Damon and Elena took the other. Charlotte eyed them as they came in and soon got up and walked over to them and climbed up to sit between Elena and Damon. She leaned mostly on Damon but stole a few sideways glances of Elena and slowly began to ease nearer to her. Charlotte yawned and stretched her tiny body out, with her head in Elena's lap and her legs on Damon's. Elena began to softly stroke her daughter's hair and Charlotte was slowly drifting off to sleep, when she sat up, all of a sudden and looked Elena straight in the eye.

"You not gonna weave me. Ah you?"

Elena shook her head. "No. Never."

Charlotte wrapped her arms around Elena's neck and Elena, of course, returned the hug. "I knew it." Charlotte whispered in her mother's ear. She finally let go and laid back down in her original position. Elena began to stroke her hair again, and just before falling asleep, Charlotte quietly said. "Night, Mommy."

Elena swallowed back the lump her throat. "Goodnight, Baby." She whispered as her voice broke.

Gia and Damon had a difficult time, convincing Elena to put Charlotte in her room, and to talk with them- after all, they had a lot to discuss- but they finally succeeded.

"Alright, Damon," Elena started as she came back to the living room. "What do we need to talk about?"

"Well, for one, Klaus knows you're not human anymore."

Elena hadn't thought about that. So much was going on- she had just been invited into her first house, she was about to meet her daughter, she had just tried to kill her daughter and Damon had her pinned on the floor- the phone call from Stefan didn't seem that important at the time. She had even contemplated making sex noises and giggling to get him off of the phone.

"Klaus?" Gia asked. "The hybrid original that you guys think started your bloodline? How'd he find out?"

"He was in Tyler's body." Elena told her. "We found out earlier."

"Tyler?" Gia asked, as if trying to remember which one that was. "Wait, so that's why he was alive?"

Elena nodded, but Damon was the one who spoke,"Yeah, which reminds me, the witch and I are going to have a talk when we get back."

"Damon," Elena warned. "You know that she only did it to protect you."

"She didn't do it to protect me, Elena. She did it to protect her mother, and Caroline, and maybe even Stefan. Saying she did it to protect me, would be like her saying she did it to protect Katherine."

"Well, she protected me too, she just didn't know it." Damon went quiet to process the thought. "And she probably protected Gia and Charlotte, or even Jeremy. You saw what Rebekah did to me when she found out about Klaus. Imagine what she would do to everyone else that I love."

"Well that's a depressing thought." Gia spoke up. "So, what's going to happen now?"

"Well," Damon started. "We were hoping to have a little time to figure this out before any of the originals knew about Elena or realized we were gone. Now the most important original knows both."

"Do you think he'll be trying to find us?" Elena asked him.

Damon shrugged ."I don't know."

"Why would he? He doesn't know why you left." Gia offered.

"That's exactly why he would." Elena told her. "We left so abruptly he had to have thought something was up. Everyone must have."

"So how soon do we need to leave?" Gia asked.

Damon spoke, "I think we should leave tomorrow. We'll get a good night's sleep and then start heading back. Let's think about a cover story tonight and we'll talk about it on the road."

The girls nodded and the three of them got up. "Oh, Elena," Gia started. "I only have three rooms, mine, Gia's and Damon's when he's here, so you can take my bed and I'll sleep on the couch."

"Oh, no, Gia that's fine. I'll sleep with Damon." Damon chuckled and Elena's eyes widened. "I mean-" Elena tried to laugh it off, but the flustered look on her face gave her away.

"Oh!" Gia said with some surprise. "I didn't... pick that up from you guys."

"Um...it's..." Elena tried, but was having a hard time explaining herself. Embarrassment was written all over her face. "New." She finally said.

"Goodnight, Gia." Damon told his niece.

"Goodnight, Uncle Damon. Goodnight, Elena."

"Goodnight, Gia." Elena told her. Damon put his arm around Elena and led her back to his bedroom. "God, that was mortifying." Elena groaned once they door was closed. "How are we going to explain it to everyone else?"

"Explain what?"

Elena raised her eyebrows. "What do you mean, 'explain what'? You've been trying to get into my pants for a year and a half and now that you have you don't think we need to explain anything?"

"You want to tell everybody we slept together?"

"Well, I thought it was more than just sex."

"Oh really now?" Damon asked as he wiggled his eyebrows and took a step toward Elena so he was close enough to put his hands on her waist and bring her close to him.

Elena smirked. "Don't even think about it now." She shoved his hands off of her and laid down on the bed. Damon groaned and followed her.